Manufacturing category: 992 books
by Sheojee Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
This book is an essential guide on pattern making and moulding in foundry industry. This book provides step by step guide and instructions on building a quality cast product in foundry. This book will act as a guide for those in the profession of foundry, those starting in their professions, the supervisors...
by Fabio Menghini
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 27, 2018
L’industria manifatturiera sta vivendo un processo di profonda trasformazione guidata dall’avvento di Internet. Alle nuove tecnologie si coniugano cambiamenti altrettanto profondi nelle modalità di operare sui mercati e nelle regole della competizione tra imprese. Le web platform oggi, come le...
by Joshua B. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination.… More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship,...
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage
A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies. From fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control...
by Joel Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance...
The Hoshin Kanri Forest
Lean Strategic Organizational Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Strategic Lean management efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organizations. Written in a colloquial manner, The Hoshin Kanri Forest is for Lean practitioners who seek to design organizational structures that functionally support the dynamics associated with Lean...
The Revenge of Analog
Real Things and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A #1 Washington Post bestseller
One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses...
Blueprint Reading
Construction Drawings for the Building Trade
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Improve Your Ability to Read and Interpret All Types of Construction Drawings
Blueprint Reading is a step-by-step guide to reading and interpreting all types of construction drawings. Filled with hundreds of illustrations and study questions, this easy-to-use resource offers a complete overview...
by Mark Frauenfelder
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
It’s 3D Printing: The Next Generation! The technology’s improving, prices are dropping,new models are hitting the market, and 3D printers are appearing on desktops, workbenches, lab shelves, and kitchen tables all over the world. Not only are we seeing better, faster, and cheaper 3D printers,...
Engine Airflow HP1537
A Practical Guide to Airflow Theory, Parts Testing, Flow Bench Testing and Analy zing Data to Increase Performance for Any Street or Racing Engine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This informative, fully illustrated handbook includes basic discussion on the science of engine airflow and relationships, how flowbenches work, testing individual engine components, how to analyze the data, calibration issues, intake and exhaust tuning, engine formulas, and putting it all together for maximum performance.
by Alexander Weygers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Teach yourself the lost arts of blacksmithing, tool design, and tool repair.
Design, forge, and fix your own tools, hardware, and household accessories with master craftsman and teacher Alexander G. Weygers. The Complete Modern Blacksmith contains clear, step-by-step instructions and hundreds...
Jumbo
The Making of the Boeing 747
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Jumbo made world travel commonplace and yet it very nearly broke the company that made it. This is the inside story of the men who, against all odds, brought the Boeing 747 into being.
Praise for the hardback version of Jumbo Wide-Body: The Making of the 747
‘A gripping true-life...
Big Potatoes
The London Manifesto for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When it was first published in January 2010, the Big Potatoes manifesto quickly created an international circle of enthusiasts – people who believed, and still believe, that the pace of technological innovation in the West is too slow. Now, a little later, what the Economist (12 January 2013) has...
Lao PDR
Accelerating Structural Transformation for Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has shown remarkable progress by consistently building itself into a market-oriented economy, with economic growth in 1986-2016 averaging around 6.5% per annum. The rapid and sustained growth brought about changes in the structure of output, but did not...